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...great Belgian anatomist Vesalius believed that the pituitary gland, a pea-sized protuberance located at the base of the brain, was an organ for the secretion of waste material. He could not have been more wrong. Though one of the smallest of man's hormone producers, the pituitary is the master gland. It exercises control or influence over virtually every biological function-including growth-by manufacturing substances that help control the other glands and organs. Thus an underactive pituitary in a child can arrest bodily development and produce a form of dwarfism. Last week a discovery was announced that...
Most Western Communist parties also registered shock. L'Unitd, official newspaper for Italy's 1,500,000-member party, headlined its editorial AN INCOMPREHENSIBLE VERDICT. The French Communist Party organ, L'Humanite, wondered "how a trial of such importance could take place virtually in secret," and "how an unsuccessful attempt could be sanctioned by capital punishment." The death sentences were the first that any nation ever meted out for attempted hijacking...
Underground newspapers are notoriously under-read, under-circulated and over-persecuted. But the case of La Cause du Peuple, the organ of France's outlawed Maoist proletarian movement, is extreme. It is not printed to be read, but to be seized by the authorities...
...student, and the invisible shield finally shattered. The argument drew a huddle of supporters behind each of the protagonists, who stood face to face at one end of the lounge. Before this argument reached its pitch (when Dan Joy, editor of the YAF house organ, New Guard, called his emotional opponent a "creep"), other discussions had broken out all over the room. Some of the contestants argued arrogantly and hotly; others tried to persuade the other side of the truth of some particular belief, or to find some bit of common ground between the Left and the Right. Onlookers were...
...terrorists who exploded a bomb in the CFIA this week were correct in identifying that institution as an organ of U. S. imperialism. But we have serious reservations about the act, and doubt that it will be a major blow to the CFIA, or that it will help to build a revolutionary movement...